ILI Webinar | The Impact of the European Landscape Convention
Michael Oldham will talk about the impact on landscape professionals in Ireland.
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention and its impact on landscape professionals in Ireland.
Michael Oldham will lead us through the objectives and opportunities of the Council of Europe - European Landscape Convention, signed in 2000 in Florence, effective since 2004. He will look at particular topics such as an update on the implementation of the 'Professional Recognition of Landscape Architects' report dated 2019.
The landscape has an important public interest role in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, and constitutes a resource favourable to economic activity. It is an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere and is a key element of individual and social well-being.
(European Landscape Convention preamble)
Biography
Michael Oldham was born in Birmingham in 1946. He was a student at Plymouth Polytechnic and Sheffield University and qualified both as an architect and as a landscape architect. He worked in local government and private practice on a wide range of projects and won several prizes. He was the founding President of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture and later became Vice-President of the Landscape Institute where he also served as Chairman of its Education Committee for several years. Appointed as an expert to the Council of Europe he has participated in several events including acting as a member of the jury for the European Landscape Awards. Michael is also an artist, specialising in watercolours, and a jeweller working in silver and gold, with assay marks registered in Birmingham.
Since 2001, he has been living in the French Alps where he continues to engage in a variety of professional activities as well as sporting interests including sailing, paragliding, skiing, and mountaineering.
Michael Oldham experience and qualifications
